Dissertation

An April Fool's joke taken too far

(Teacher/Professor): Hey it would be an awsome April Fool's joke if we got them (students) to write 5000-15000 words on something completely pointless and make it worth half of their end result!

Other teacher/professor: yeah! omg that would be amazing let's call it a DISSERTATION...that'll get 'em

Then before you know it it becomes a compulsory aspect of your grade/degree

by onlymejustme April 2, 2009

dissertation

An idea that was spawned from the evil nasty dissertation monsters to make students fail university and waste three years of their life and lots of money

I have a 15000 word dissertation to hand in, in less than 72 hours Argh !

by DirkDiggler April 5, 2003

dissertation

A large piece of work , mainly done in the wee hours of the morning whilst drinking loads of coffee. Generally in the 10k++ word range

I got a friggen disertation to do and the handin is in 72 hours my god!!

by Jock Strap April 6, 2003

dissertation

The last course in cooking school.

Don't eat my dissertation.

by george stephans October 21, 2004

Dissertation Brain

When you spend a very long time at the computer, working on your dissertation (or other big project) but come away feeling like you have achieved nothing, but you are also no longer able to function normally. Usually cured by alcohol.

I have so got Dissertation Brain, I've been sat here for 5 hours, have achieved nothing. It's due in in 48 hours :S

by princesshelz April 10, 2011

Dissertation Brain

When you have been working on your dissertation for a a long time (subject to your own interpretation of a long time) and you start to forget random but important information.

Today , I forgot what year it was. I swore it was 2015 and an hour into working and dating everything 2015, I realized it was actually 2016. That is when I realized that I had dissertation brain. #dissertationbrain

by allaboutthatgradlife May 23, 2016

Yellow Dissertation

An academic dissertation that draws heavily upon the uncredited work of others. So named for the yellow highlighting that tends to be used to illustrate the fact, with a nod to the term 'yellow journalism.'

"William Meehan submitted a yellow dissertation drawing upon Carl Boening. Of course, since Meehan is a ranked academic, he will never be called on it."

by ChurchHatesTucker June 1, 2009